Lot Essay
Titled as follows: 'Baramulla, Kashmir', 'A Hanje (Kashmiri Boatman)', 'A Typical Yarkundi', 'Specimens of Carving. Kashmiri at work', 'Kashmiri Devotees', 'A Kashmiri...Spinning', 'Ganderbal. Starting stage for the Sand Valley', 'Gardens in the Dhal Lake', 'In the Nighat Bagh (autumn) Kashmir', 'Hindoo Devotees. Kashmir', 'Hindoos (Pundit race) Kashmir', 'In the floating Gardens, Dhal Lake, Kashmir', 'A Punditani. Kashmir' and 'A village Girl. Kashmir'.
Scottish photographer Fred Bremner travelled to Lucknow in 1882 at the age of nineteen to become assistant to his brother-in-law Mr. G. W. Lawrie. A few years later he established his own photographic business which continued for the next forty years and through which he gained a great reputation for his pictorial records of Indian life. He died back in Scotland at the age of fifty-nine.
Scottish photographer Fred Bremner travelled to Lucknow in 1882 at the age of nineteen to become assistant to his brother-in-law Mr. G. W. Lawrie. A few years later he established his own photographic business which continued for the next forty years and through which he gained a great reputation for his pictorial records of Indian life. He died back in Scotland at the age of fifty-nine.